Transcript of U.S. Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent Interview with Tucker Carlson on President Donald Trump’s Tariff Plan and Its Impact on the Middle Class

Watch the interview on YouTube here. Tucker Carlson: Mr. Secretary, thank you very much for joining us. So, the Treasury Department—President Trump had a press conference yesterday, next door, in which he announced a whole new global tariff regime. He’d been promising to do this, well, for 40 years, really. It came not out of nowhere, but it was clearly his intent all along, as stated. But it did rattle people, including some of his supporters. So I just wanted to ask you, big picture: where do you think this leads?Sec. Scott Bessent: Well, Tucker, thank you for having me. And as you said, the President's been talking about this for four decades. Yes. And this is transformational for the American economy, for the American worker, and for the new Republican alignment. And it’s a combination of the old and new ideas.